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DIX, John A.
Speeches and Occasional Addresses. 1864
£250
First Edition. Prominent US general and politician, senator, Secretary of the Treasury, and governor of New York, Dix held several important positions during the Civil War but was...
2 vols. Octavo. Contemporary ?presentation midnight blue half skiver on scarlet glazed boards, title gilt to spine, top edge gilt others uncut. Engraved portrait... Read more
DIGBY, William.
1857. A Friend in Need. 1887. Friendship forgotten. 1890
£250
First edition. "Deals with the aid Nepal rendered to India during the Mutiny … and the failure of Britain to help the Nepalese Royal Family when they were overthrown and exiled"...
Octavo. Original blue diapered cloth, title gilt to spine, large block of the Nepalese royal standards to the upper board. Portrait frontispiece and 5 other portraits,... Read more
DICKENS, Charles.
American Notes for General Circulation. 1850
£175
First Cheap Edition. Dickens wrote a new introduction for this pretty little one-volume edition.
Octavo. Original green cloth, decoration to boards in blind, titles and decoration to spine gilt, yellow coated endpapers printed in black, all edges untrimmed.... Read more
D’HARNONCOURT, René.
Mexicana. A Book of Pictures. 1931
£750
First edition. This copy signed on the half-title and with a loosely inserted pencil drawing by d'Harnoncourt with inscription to Mrs. Cotton, "I just found this sketch of Panchito...
Quarto. Original pictorial paper-covered boards. 48 full-page illustrations. Slight damping to the lower board and tail of the spine with some consequent making in... Read more
DESNOS, Louis Charles.
Atlas Chorographique, Historique, et Portatif des Elections du Royaume. Généralité de Paris. 1763
£3,500
First edition. Uncommon, OCLC lists just three copies which appear to be bound with an accompanying text by the abbé Regley which was clearly never present here: a further...
Small quarto (196 × 136 mm). Mottled calf trade binding, raised bands to the spine, double fillet gilt panels to the compartments enclosing gilt pomegranate... Read more
DENISON, Frederic.
Illustrated New Bedford, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket. 1880
£175
This second, revised edition issued the year after the first. Scarce and attractive little local guide. 1880 was the year in which Cottage City was incorporated, it changed its name...
Octavo. Original printed light card wraps. Large folding map of the Cottage City, Martha's Vineyard, numerous steel-engraved illustrations to the text. Wrapper... Read more
DEMIDOFF, E[lim], Prince San Donato.
Hunting Trips in the Caucasus. 1898
£950
First edition. "Hunting on the sprawling hunting preserve of Grand Duke Mikhailovitch, the author bagged tûr near the Kisha River, with additional hunts after ollen and aurochs....
Octavo (218 × 156 mm) Contemporary tan pigskin on linen boards, title gilt to spine. Frontispiece and numerous illustrations from the author's photographs,... Read more
DEMIDOFF, Anatole de
Travels in Southern Russia, and the Crimea; 1853
£1,500
First edition in English, originally published in four volumes in French, 1840-2. This translation presumably issued to capitalize on the interest in the region stimulated by the...
2 volumes, tall octavo. Original green wavy-grained cloth, titles in gilt to the spines, panelling in blind to the boards, Russian Imperial eagle gilt to the upper... Read more
DELISLE, Guillaume; Philippe Buache; & Jean Claude Dezauche.
Atlas geographique et universel 1789
£25,000
First edition thus and uncommon (just four listings on OCLC, three of these for the BNF, and no complete copy at auction for 30 years). Jean-Claude Dezauche was one of the...
2 volumes, folio (453 × 375 mm). Contemporary calf, rebacked, red morocco labels. Engraved allegorical title page and contents leaves to each and 151 double-page... Read more
DEIGHTON, Len.
Len Deighton's Continental Dossier. 1968
£50
First edition, first impression.
Octavo. Photographic boards, as issued, two cloth bookmarkers in green and red. Colours maps in the text throughout. Colour folding map of Europe tipped in to rear... Read more
DEIGHTON, Len.
Len Deighton's London Dossier. 1967
£75
First edition, first impression. A guide-book that opens a window onto London in the 60s.
Octavo. Original red boards, titles to spine gilt, photographic endpapers, top edge stained black. With the photographic dust jacket. Spine slightly rolled. An... Read more
DE MONTMORENCY, Hervey.
Sword and Stirrup. Memories of an Adventurous Life. 1936
£200
First edition. Uncommon and unusual memoir containing an account of service in the Boer War, including the Relief of Mafeking, and the First World War, Arras, Passchendaele. But also...
Octavo. Original quarter grey cloth on sage green cloth boards, title gilt to the spine. Portrait frontispiece, full-page map to the text. A little rubbed, light... 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
DAVIS, Charles Oliver Bond.
The Life and Times of Patuone, The Celebrated Ngapuhi Chief. 1876
£575
First edition, uncommon, COPAC shewing just BL and Oxford, OCLC lists only 10 copies in the US. Life of the Maori chieftain who witnessed Cook's arrival in New Zealand as a boy, his...
Duodecimo. Original grey card printed wraps. Original albumen print photographic frontispiece of Patuone by Auckland photographer, G. Redfern. Wraps somewhat soiled... Read more
DARWIN, Charles.
Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural History of the Various Countries Visited by the H.M.S. Beagle, 1839
£8,500
First edition, first separate issue of Darwin's first published book, written up from his manuscript journal and the small notebooks forming the memoranda on which the journal itself...
Octavo (221 × 135 mm). Contemporary brown half calf, titles to spine and rules to raised bands gilt, marbled sides, grey endpapers, speckled edges. 2 folding... Read more
DARLING, F. Fraser.
Natural History in the Highlands and Islands. 1947
£100
First edition, first impression. Part of The New Naturalist series.
Octavo (211 × 145 mm). Finely bound for Henry Sotheran Ltd. in green half calf, green morocco label, decoration to spine, green cloth boards, marbled endpapers,... Read more
DAPPER, Olfert.
Naukeurige beschryving van gantsch Syrie, en Palestyn of Heilige Lant. 1677
£3,500
First edition. Dr Olfert Dapper (1636–1688), physician, geographical and historical scholar, was the author of a series of works dealing with Africa, America and Asia; these...
Folio, in two parts. Contemporary mottled calf neatly rebacked, two-line gilt border to edges, all edges speckled red. First title page printed in red and black, with... Read more
DANIELL, Thomas & William.
A Picturesque Voyage to India; by the way of China. 1810
£10,000
First edition. Originally issued in ten parts, "the aquatints of India by Thomas and William Daniell have been continuously popular ever since their publication between 1795 and 1810...
Folio (348 × 250 mm). Nineteenth-century half calf on marbled boards, flat spine elaborately gilt in compartments, marbled edges and endpapers, neatly rebacked... Read more
DALRYMPLE, Alexander.
A Collection of Voyages chiefly in the Southern Atlantick Ocean. Published from Original M.S.S. 1775
£8,500
First edition. Important collection of earlier accounts of Pacific voyages. Dalrymple had done much research to promote the "counterpoise" theory of a great southern continent, and...
Quarto (260 × 202 mm) later tan half morocco on nineteenth-century marbled boards, green morocco label. 3 folding engraved coastal profiles or charts. Bound... Read more
DAINELLI, Giotto.
Buddhists and Glaciers of Western Tibet. 1933
£300
First edition in English, first published in Italian the previous year. "This volume describes, in diary form, a one-man journey in 1930. [Dainelli] travelled by Kashmir, Baltistan,...
Octavo. Original grey-blue cloth, lettered in dark blue on the spine. With the dust jacket. Frontispiece and 31 other plates, double-page map at the rear. Corners... Read more
CUSTER, Elizabeth B.
Tenting on The Plains 1887
£375
First Edition. The second of Libbie Custer's three books (the others were Boots and Saddles, 1885, and Following the Guidon, 1890), brilliant pieces of propaganda aimed at glorifying...
Octavo. Recent full dark blue morocco, title and decoration to spine gilt, rule to boards gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Engraved portrait frontispiece, 28... Read more
CURZON, George Nathaniel.
Persia and the Persian Question. 1892
£975
First edition. "The period of Curzon's great travels began in August 1887 with a journey round the world followed by a visit to Russia and central Asia in 1888–9, a long tour of...
2 volumes octavo (211 × 129 mm). Contemporary dark green half morocco on linen boards, title gilt to the spine, flat bands attractively tooled, floral devices to... Read more
CURTIS, William Eleroy.
Turkestan: "The Heart of Asia." 1911
£250
First edition, the British issue with Hodder & Stoughton on title page and spine. An engaging and well-informed travelogue of Russian Turkestan (Merv, Khiva, Bokhara, Tashkent, and...
Octavo. Original blue combed cloth, title gilt to the spine and upper board, panel in gilt, green and white of the inscription form Tamerlane's tomb to the upper... Read more
CUREAU DE LA CHAMBRE, Marin.
Discours sur les Causes du Débordement du Nil. 1665
£4,000
First Edition, for the first time published separately, previously included in his Pensées of 1634 and 1662, uncommon, just six copies on OCLC, only three of them in the US....
Quarto (252 × 183 mm). Contemporary full calf, raised bands to the spine, compartments gilt with floral lozenges within double ruled panels, presentation gilt... Read more
CUNNINGHAM, Alexander.
The Ancient Geography of India. 1871
£500
First edition, Volume I all published, uncommon. Cunningham, known as the father of the Archaeological Survey of India, was an Addiscombe-trained Bengal Engineer who served in both...
Octavo. Original maroon sand-grained cloth, neatly rebacked with the original spine laid down, title gilt to spine, blind panelling to the boards. Map frontispiece and... Read more
